George C. Jeffries

JEFFRIES, CADY, FISHER

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 4/20/2009 at 17:53:38

GEORGE C. JEFFRIES, dealer in harness, saddles, robes and whips, Exira, was born in Burlington, Iowa, May 13, 1852. He is a son of George C. and Mary J. (Cady) Jeffries, natives of Kentucky and New York respectively, who were early settlers in Iowa. His father has been a shoe merchant in Des Moines for many years, removing from Burlington to that city when our subject was two years old. Here George C., Jr., passed his boyhood and attended the city schools. After leaving school he learned the harnessmaker's trade, and also worked at bricklaying for several years. He then followed shoemaking for a time, and then engaged in farming for two years. In 1887 he embarked in the harness business, opening a shop in Exira. He has since carried on a good business, and is building up a profitable trade. Mr. Jeffries was married in 1874 to Miss L. E. Fisher, of Carlisle, Warren County, Iowa. By this union three children have been born Fred B., Bertie W. and Mary E. Mr. Jeffries is a member of Exodus Lodge, No. 342, A. F. & A. M.; of the Knights of Pythias; of the A. O. U. W., No. 251, and of the Methodist Episcopal church. He casts his suffrage with the Republican party. His father died in 1881, in the sixty fifth year of his age.

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

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